Tim Sheridan wrote:
> I have been trying to think of a way that would make the internet a
> lot faster and I came up with the idea of a world wide (LAN) like
> network. It would be just like a cable connection but a lot faster. Up
> to 1Gbps could be achieved. This would allow pricing of dial-up to
> crash and eventually standardise network speeds.
>
> I need to knoe the following things though:
>
> 1. Is there a limit to the distance that a TCP/IP cable can cover.
>
> 2. Are there any major problems with TCP/IP that could affect what I
> propose.
>
> 3. Any comments/help you could offer me would be greatly appreciated.
> Even if you don't like my idea, no flaming.
>
> Thanks -- Tim Sheridan
The Internet is a TCP/IP network.

The recommended limit of a standard cat5 ethernet run is 100 meters.

I'm not sure how could you transmit signals with greater speed thru the same
cables and same network cards
if you are planning to invent your own network card to increase speed, why
don't just upgrade it to a fiber optics.
world wide optical cables will allow much more than 1 GB in traffic the
problem is that it is kind of expencive to make it everythere.
Since quantum computers are coming in the next decade, I'm sure new methods
of wireless data transmission will come to market, like
transmitters/recievers based on quantum effects and this things will be able
to exchange data with no maximum distance limits, and they will be pretty
fast.
Or maybe we will be connected directly brain-to-brain with some installable
hardware into our heads.

anyway, i guess you just need to wait.


"Tim Sheridan" wrote in message
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> I have been trying to think of a way that would make the internet a
> lot faster and I came up with the idea of a world wide (LAN) like
> network. It would be just like a cable connection but a lot faster. Up
> to 1Gbps could be achieved. This would allow pricing of dial-up to
> crash and eventually standardise network speeds.
>
> I need to knoe the following things though:
>
> 1. Is there a limit to the distance that a TCP/IP cable can cover.
>
> 2. Are there any major problems with TCP/IP that could affect what I
> propose.
>
> 3. Any comments/help you could offer me would be greatly appreciated.
> Even if you don't like my idea, no flaming.
>
> Thanks -- Tim Sheridan